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...SHOULD HAVE BEEN A TIME OF TRIumph. Carol Moseley-Braun, the newly elected Democratic Senator from Illinois, arrived last week to claim her place in history as the first African-American woman sworn into the Senate. Instead, Moseley-Braun faced a press corps asking pointed questions about her personal life and finances, and about allegations of sexual harassment made against her boyfriend and campaign manager, Kgosie Matthews. After her first week on Capitol Hill, she declared, "If this is a honeymoon, I'm going to divorce...
...charges were especially stinging because they involved the kind of indiscretions Moseley-Braun had campaigned against. The former Cook County recorder of deeds entered the Senate race in response to the Judiciary Committee's mishandling of Professor Anita Hill's sexual-harassment charges against Clarence Thomas. A compelling speaker with a winning smile, Moseley- Braun, the divorced mother of a 15-year-old son, became a media star. But as she swept to victory, she was criticized for poor judgment and a sloppy campaign...
WOMEN HAVE GAINED HARD-WON GROUND IN THE SENATE THIS year, boosting their numbers from two to six. But the Senate clerk's office is still pretty slow on the uptake. When CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN, the newly elected Senator from Illinois, stopped by to get her photo I.D., her picture was snapped and for some reason she was handed a card emblazoned SPOUSE. The amused Senator handed it back, murmuring "Try again...
...CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN...
Then there was the realization that women do not necessarily inhabit a loftier moral plane than the men they intend to dislodge. Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun got hit with Medicaid-fraud charges for failing to report a windfall that might have helped pay her mother's nursing-home bill. Yeakel was revealed to have paid $17,000 in back taxes on the eve of announcing her candidacy. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer had 143 bounced checks to account for. In the nastiest race of all, two New York feminists, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, went down biting and clawing -- to make...